The designer’s formats, not so coincidentally arrayed as a rock climbing wall.

Aphrodite descending.

A long way down.

A long, long way down…

Poise and its verve—serenity shot through with deadly abysses.

There is a territory, stemming from Louboutin’s collaboration (in 2007) with filmmaker, David Lynch (clearly a kindred spirit, when you think of the showgirls in the latter’s Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive), focusing upon shoe fetishes. This hot little number will appear, later, on our film blog, Rather Have the Blues.